Hello, So I have implemented mballoc improvements to avoid spreading allocations even with mb_optimize_scan=1. It fixes the performance regression I was able to reproduce with reaim on my test machine: mb_optimize_scan=0 mb_optimize_scan=1 patched Hmean disk-1 2076.12 ( 0.00%) 2099.37 ( 1.12%) 2032.52 ( -2.10%) Hmean disk-41 92481.20 ( 0.00%) 83787.47 * -9.40%* 90308.37 ( -2.35%) Hmean disk-81 155073.39 ( 0.00%) 135527.05 * -12.60%* 154285.71 ( -0.51%) Hmean disk-121 185109.64 ( 0.00%) 166284.93 * -10.17%* 185298.62 ( 0.10%) Hmean disk-161 229890.53 ( 0.00%) 207563.39 * -9.71%* 232883.32 * 1.30%* Hmean disk-201 223333.33 ( 0.00%) 203235.59 * -9.00%* 221446.93 ( -0.84%) Hmean disk-241 235735.25 ( 0.00%) 217705.51 * -7.65%* 239483.27 * 1.59%* Hmean disk-281 266772.15 ( 0.00%) 241132.72 * -9.61%* 263108.62 ( -1.37%) Hmean disk-321 265435.50 ( 0.00%) 245412.84 * -7.54%* 267277.27 ( 0.69%) Stefan, can you please test whether these patches fix the problem for you as well? Comments & review welcome. Honza